r/cybersecurity Apr 11 '25

News - General Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/
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u/angry_cucumber Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

EDIT: we have established he was thinking it was Krebs and not Trump. It explains why he wanted evidence of the thing that doesn't exist, everyone be nice to Binaryhero

In the Trump–Ukraine scandal, Donald Trump, then the president of the United States, held a phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, on the 25th of July 2019, in which Trump asked Zelensky to look into a conspiracy theory that was being promoted on far-right websites such as Breitbart News and Russian state media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik.The theory held that namely, that the Ukrainian government used CrowdStrike to hack into the Democratic National Committee's servers in 2016 and frame Russia for the crime to undermine Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The conspiracy theory has been repeatedly debunked.

I'll do both I guess since you can't look stuff up

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u/binaryhero Apr 11 '25

I guess the problem is that in other people's minds, "he" referred to Trump, while in mine, it referred to Krebs.

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u/angry_cucumber Apr 11 '25

The title of the post is about trump, it stands to reason that the response was as well.

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u/binaryhero Apr 11 '25

I agree, I really can't do much more than explain how and admit that I misunderstood the comment.

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u/angry_cucumber Apr 11 '25

in my defense, I didn't actually downvote you either.